Varieties of English

7,117 languages are spoken today

 Varieties of English
● British
● American

● Canadian

● African

● Australian

● New Zealand

● Irish

● Asian

● Indian…
British English
 West Midlands
Received Pronunciation
Black Country
Northern (In the North East, Brummie (Birmingham)
local speech is akin to Scots)[4] Potteries (north Staffordshire)
Cheshire Coventry
East Anglian
Geordie (Tyneside) Norfolk
Hartlepudlian (Hartlepool) Suffolk
Lancastrian (Lancashire) Southern
Cockney (working-class
Mackem (Sunderland) London and surrounding areas)
Mancunian (Greater Essaxon (Essex)
Manchester) Estuary (middle-class London,
Yorkshire Home Counties and Hampshire)
Pompey dialect (Portsmouth)
East Midlands Kentish (Kent)
Lincolnshire Multicultural London (London)
East Lincolnshire Sussex
West Country
Anglo-Cornish
Bristolian
Janner (Plymouth)
Dorset
 Caribbean English
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Is a variety of English leaning towards a Creole
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CE is often considered as a Creole
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Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana,
Suriname etc. along with the West Indies,
comprise of the Caribbean islands
 A Sample
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In Trinidadian vernacular usage, the existential
expression it have is equivalent to English there
is/are, as in It have plenty people in the park.
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In the intermediate varieties of Trinidad,
however, they have is used with the same
meaning as both it have and there is/are, as in
They have plenty people in the park.
British English Vs American English
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Flat ●
Apartment
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Fringes ●
Bangs
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Appetizer ●
Starter
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Sweet ●
Candy
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Mobile phone ●
Cell Phone
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Biscuits ●
Cookies
 BE vs Caribbean English -
Sentences
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Good Morning, How do you do? (BE)
– Hey mornin boy,how do you doning now? (CE)
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Whats going on?
– Waagwaan?
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Can I get a burrito?
– I can get a burrito?
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Do you get it?
– Ent uh?